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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Summer is my least favored season. I second Jane Austen thought entirely... "what dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance". So very true. Plus, it severely affects my stitching skills. I find it difficult to stitch when it is so unbearably hot. I am always under the impression that even if I struggle to keep my hands dry and clean, my linen and threads become untidy. And I don't like that. So these days I did manage to finish one of my LHN charts, working very late in the evenings, but mainly I took to crochet. Easier, tidier and definitely less messy. Since wool is certainly not an option, I went for cotton items and what better than some more little bags? Three are finished already and a fourth is on the way.

Number one, same pattern by VendulkaM as for the pink and blue bag. But this time, I tried to use the same colors proposed by the model.

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Don't know if any of you uses Photobucket for storing photos and linking them to blog posts. I did. I started long ago because of a craft forum I used to visit. It allowed photos only as links to some external platform so I went for the one the other members were using. And since it seemed silly to store photos in many different places, I used photobucket for my blog as well. Very bad idea...
Recently, reading comments from some of the sweet friends who visit my blog (thank you ladies!!!), I realized all my photos suddenly disappeared! I had not deleted them from 'the bucket' so my first thought was 'how weird....'! It turned into 'how annoying' when I discovered that photobucket has decided that you now need to pay a fee if you wish for your own photos to be visible on other websites! Grrrrrr

So, I am slowly moving to google photos. It will take a while to get all pictures visible again, but hopefully it should work.

Sunday, July 2, 2017

My crochet mojo is in full gear these days... I had some cotton in my stash, in brilliant colors, which I bought ages ago. It is recycled cotton, and I had originally intended it for washcloths but never found the 'right' pattern for it. No matter the stitch or pattern I chose... it always looked odd with this sort of cotton. So I kept frogging and putting it aside 'for later'.
A couple of days ago I happened to visit a lovely Etsy shop and saw a pattern I thought could be 'right' for this yarn. I did not have any apple green, but decided to try anyway using blue. The pattern is very easy and so much fun to crochet I plan to get the recommended colors and make a second one. I think they will make good items for a charity sale or last minute gifts to a little girl. Hope so at least!
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